Glen,
Did James and Alan write a program to get the timing slips to print out or
do
you input the info? I now have to cable to go the computor and the special
keypad
to get the car number in the system, but I lack the program or where to get one.
All I can find is systems for runners or swimmers.
joe
Glen Barrett wrote:
> Hi Jim
>
> As far as the photocells which are infared units from Banner, the senders or
> emiters are powered by a small gel cell battery.
> The recievers are also battery powered and connected to a common ground wire
> some 5 miles long and a wire to a junction box in the timing stand and then
> into a timer circuit in the computer. On the salt we try to be 1000 feet from
> each course. At the lakes we are from 600 to 800 depending where the course
> edge is from the edge of the lake bed. Some times a 1000 feet is close as one
> year Kenny Lyon was smoked out in his two wheel liner and missed the tower by
> 18 feet. The timing system we use was designed and built by James & Alan Rice(
> chronologic). They also built the system for the lakes. As they also run a car
> and know the needs of the racer we have a great system.I know this a little
> more info then you asked for but what the heck I was on a roll.
> Glen
>
> BICWIG@aol.com wrote:
>
> > Glen,
> > I'm very curious as to how you link the lights to the computer. Surely you
> > can't use cable. We have the luxury of being no more than 300 ft from the
> > traps, so cable is no problem. When I went to Bonneville the first time, I
> > wondered how you guys did that.
> >
> > Jim Bodenheimer
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